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Editor Liz Hawes Executive Officer PO Box 25380 Wellington 6146 Ph: 04 471 2338 Email: Liz.Hawes@nzpf.ac.nz
September 2021
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Liz Hawes, Editor
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Magazine Proof-reader Helen Kinsey-Wightman Editorial Board Perry Rush, NZPF President Geoff Lovegrove, Retired Principal, Feilding Liz Hawes, Editor Advertising
Perry Rush
8 Pacific Education Plan translated into Action Jason Swann, Principal, Otahuhu Primary School
Talanoa at Stanhope Road School
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What did the final Tomorrow’s Schools Report Recommend?
Dr Cathy Wylie, NZCER
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When COVID strikes our school: Communication and Management strategies Papatoetoe High School
Reprinted with permission of ‘The Writing Room’
27 The Big 7
David McKenzie, Principal Edendale Primary School, Southland
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Dance Studies – dance and politics, leadership and inclusion
Professor Nicholas Rowe, Auckland University
37 Kia hiwa rā Martin Thrupp
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Opinion – ‘Taking a strengths based, solution focussed approach to attendance’
Helen Kinsey-Wightman
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